Thursday, June 11, 2009

WHO NEEDS VERNACULAR SCHOOLS?

My opinion here may make a lot of people angry. But think about it and judge my view here carefully. I grew up in a multiracial environment somewhere in Selayang. I have had my share of good relationships and also bad relationships with many neighbours. But never did any problem turn into a racial one as we had an understanding with each other. we had a trust in each other.
That's what matters most .. the trust. It takes time to develop trust onto another man or a group of people. And it doesn't come easy. We have been a free country for the last 52 years and how much trust have gained of the other races or people? Not much. We still have the ethnic labels such as keling, belacan, mamak or apek still alive in the Malaysia vocabulary till today. And its going to be there for a long time if the current trend in racial relationships continue.
Now back to fundamentals... How did my neighbours and me mingle with each other so well? in fact i tell you, i like my Chinese neighbour more than the Indian ones. The worst is one guy next to my house.. one typical Ceylonese asshole, too arrogant with his two cars and that big stupid dog of his. How did that happen?
It was because we had been staying together for so many years in the same area and saw each other's faces everyday and observed each other's fallacies as well as our courtesies. That taught me to appreciate another person and at the same time to wonder about the follies about my own people. Sounds like any of your experience?
So the trick is to place all the people of all the races into one place and make them mingle. That alone will do wonders. Best if they were children. Kids really dont care about race or religion when they mix with each other. It is we the stupid parents who tell them who to mix with and who not to. We teach them about race and religion and then we whack our heads on the walls when there is a racial clash on the streets. Some even go as far as to write all over their blogs about racial unity but what happens at home?
Thats why we need schools, to counter all the rubbish that we stupid parents plant inside their heads. And the mixture of races and intermingling does not happen in anywhere better than the national schools. We have teachers and students of all races all mixing around each other very well and forming an environment where racial bounderies are blurred out. Thats what we need. Not separate Chinese schools , Tamil schools and Malays schools that continue the British administrative genius of ' break and rule'.
First the Chinese schools. Dont be so 'kiahsu' laa ok... You think what maa? You come from Chinese school you big time thyko aah? My dears.. have you tried to talk to the Chinese School students in English? Thats right, you tried and you gave up didn't you? Yup the Chinese school English is down the drain. One student I knew memorises the whole English essay from the book and just adjusts the essay by reconstituting some words and changing phrases. Dont believe me right? Of course they are very good in Maths. But that doesn't mean that all the students in national schools suck at algebra. Maths is not the only thing important. How much do you think Mr. Obama know about Maths? The problem is not that the students in Chinese school cannot learn English but its just that they are thought that they are more superior than other races and thus the super racist attitudes of the students from these schools. Yup i mean it. Nearly everyone. I studied in University Malaya and there were a lot of Chinese students from Chinese schools and I cant point to anyone who was a close friend. They dont mix with others, the kelings and the belacans.
Then the Tamils schools. What the hell is going on in the tamil schools in the country? They have been there for how long? How many actually have proper teaching facilities? Dont talk about facilities.. how many actually have qualified teachers? Pass SPM and you can become a teacher in a tamil school. Because of this none of the Indian parents in any state want to send their children to any Tamil school. Dont blame the government for that. Where were all the Indian politicians? I dont hear any suggestions from them to improve the syllabus or qualitiy of teaching in those schools. Because they are too busy playing politics and are more concerned about the lyrics for their party official song. Yup thats what they do best in all the Tamil schools nowadays. Singing and dancing... And dont forget these schools are the main breeding grounds for the gansters. These schools are a failure. The problem is the Indian community does not have a powerful majority in the country to demand for a separate school system. The British understood that and thats why the former masters of the estates did not bother to establish a Tamil education system. But the Indian leaders who followed then wanted Tamil schools for a show of ego. They wanted the Tamils at that time to feel some pride for themselves. They planted the fear that the Tamil language will perish if the Tamil schools were abolished. Bullshit.. hey man Tamil has been in existence for the past 4000 years la. To make the language immortal is in the heart of the us the lazy Tamilians to speak the language and love doing it. Go and speak Tamil to any of those high class Tamilian buggers, especially the women, and see if they understand. They cant talk a single fcuking word of it. You know why? Because of their stupid parents who tought them that the Tamil language is a ' low class' language and speaking in English makes them more 'high class'. I know .. my parents tried to do the same.. fortunately i had a brain of my own. I am a doctor and when i meet my Indian friends we only speak in Tamil.
So there's no need to worry about the Chinese or Tamil language, culture or tradition disappearing form our society. As long as we value our ancestor's heritage, then they are safe.
So who needs all these vernacular schools? no one.. I give my full support for the government to shut down all the vernacular schools and change them into national schools. We have to think about our unification and peace for the country first than drowning ourselves in chauvenism and racism.

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